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"Brazil's Mangroves On The Front Line Of Climate Change"

"Fishermen like Jose da Cruz have made their living for decades hunting for crabs among Brazil’s vast coastal mangrove forests, dense thickets of twisted plants in deep black mud that grow where fresh-water rivers meet the brackish Atlantic Ocean."

Source: Reuters, 05/30/2019

"Whistleblower: BLM Ignores Illegal Grazing After Bundy Fiasco"

"A career Bureau of Land Management official who was fired last month says the Trump administration is refusing to enforce federal laws and regulations governing livestock grazing in Nevada out of fear of sparking another armed standoff like the one five years ago involving rancher Cliven Bundy."

Source: E&E News PM, 05/30/2019

US Officials To Put Off Oil Leases Near Sacred Tribal Land

"U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that Native Americans consider sacred surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico."

Source: AP, 05/30/2019

"'American Soil' Is Increasingly Foreign Owned"

"American soil. Those are two words that are commonly used to stir up patriotic feelings. They are also words that can't be taken for granted, because today nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland are held by foreign investors."

Source: NPR, 05/29/2019

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